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A former content director with the now-defunct Silicon Knights video game developer has been sentenced to time served after police found a cache of child pornography on his home computers.

Kenneth McCulloch, 43, appeared in an Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to making child pornography available.

Court was told McCulloch, a first-time offender, had been in jail since his arrest in July 2013.

Judge Joseph Nadel imposed a sentence of time served, saying the St. Catharines resident had already served 12 months behind bars in pre-trial custody which is the minimum mandatory sentence for the offence.

Among the material Niagara Regional Police discovered on McCulloch's computer equipment were videos and images of young pre-pubescent boys engaged in sexual activity with adult women, said assistant Crown attorney Richard Monette.

"You have a penchant or an attraction to looking at young persons and children in perverted circumstances," the judge told McCulloch.

"You are potentially a danger to young persons and children."

McCulloch was ordered to stay away from anyone under the age of 16 and to keep clear of schools, parks, recreation centres and public pools for 10 years.

His name will be on the provincial sex offender registry for the next 20 years.

While the case is behind him, McCulloch's legal battles are far from over.

While he was in jail awaiting trial on the child pornography offences, Niagara Regional Police charged him with sexual assault, forcible confinement and sexual interference.

He remains in custody and will return to court Aug. 26 to answer to those charges.

After Silicon Knights went bust, McCulloch went on to work at Precursor Games, an independent developer formed from ex-Silicon Knights employees.

"Having just learned of these disturbing charges today and based on the serious nature of them, Ken McCulloch is no longer affiliated in any way with Precursor Games," CEO Paul Caporicci said in a statement on the developer's official forums soon after the arrest.